i-name

i-name

A human-friendly name in the XRI system for persistent naming on the Internet. I-names are registered to people, businesses, communities, as well as to any data resource. The registrar is an "i-broker," which enables the registrant to manage the i-name data record (the XRDS file).

People are =, Companies are @ A personal i-name starts with an equals sign, such as =john.doe, and a company i-name starts with an at sign, such as @mycompany. People and company i-names are high-level XRI names.

Communities and Data A community can be created by subdividing an @ i-name with a star (*) preceding each individual, such as @mygroup*john.doe. Data names are created by subdividing a company i-name with a plus sign (+) for each data element, such as @mycompany+productA.

People (=) and company (@) i-names are managed by the i-broker; however, the * and + i-names at a lower level are maintained and managed in local servers, similar to the way lower-level DNS names are stored on a company's own DNS servers, not the top level root servers on the Internet. Individuals with = i-names can also subdivide their name into additional users and data in the same manner. See XRI, XRDS and i-broker.

Cordance, operator of the i-names digital identity address registry, announced at Digital ID World 2006 today that all i-name registrars ("i-brokers") will now support the new OpenID Web authentication protocol.

org-Accredited I-Brokers(TM) are also now offering two other standardized digital identity services ("i-services") for i-name owners: contact pages -- a simple, safe way for to be contacted over the web without exposing an email address to spam, and forwarding links -- an easy way to create a lifetime link to any Web resource, such as a blog, home page, resume, photo album, song collection, etc.

11 /PRNewswire/ -- Cordance, operator of the i-names digital identity address registry, announced at Digital ID World 2006 today that all i-name registrars ("i-brokers") will now support the new OpenID Web authentication protocol.

Beginning today, two new i-name digital address namespaces become available: "=name" and "@name.

In addition to spam-safe contact service, i-brokers will be offering two other basic i-services: single sign-on service, which enables consumers to use their i-name and a single, strong, secure password to log in to websites or web-based applications; and forwarding service, which allows individuals or businesses to create their own simple, permanent digital addresses for web pages, blogs, photos, videos, files, etc.

org, a public trust organization that serves as the governing body for development of standards for the "i-name" digital address, announces that it has approved the Global Service Specification governing how i-names are to be sold and supported, paving the way for the opening of the i-names Global Registry Service ("GRS") on June 20, 2006.

In the same way that the easy registration of a domain name enabled millions of users to create websites and begin making electronic commerce a reality, the ability to register an i-name will allow businesses and individuals to begin to use identity-based services that create greater convenience and provide more personal control to the individual.

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